Jelly Bean Counting Contest

[Cassi]

Oh my.... I meant that in jest.  I knew what you meant and just made a play on words.

Well, I didn't know that   And,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I was thinking there are only two jellybeans and the rest are those little packing material things that you use to ship electronic parts in non-static bags!!!!


Just kidding.  I know that you carefully place grocery bags in the jar with the beans glued on.

[Devlyn]

No, no tricks. It is a one gallon jug full of jelly beans. There's a lot. 

[sarah1972]

27672

[Cassi]

27672

Thaz a lot of beans!

[November Fox]

... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

Edit:

...Wonders how Devlyn figured out the exact number of beans in the jar

[Cassi]

... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

I am just soooooo glad you chose to count the beans versus the little white spots on non-cable or digital tv's dead space.

[November Fox]

If I ever reach those levels of desperate, somebody should just "help" me sleep with a blow to the head... 

[Cassi]

If I ever reach those levels of desperate, somebody should just "help" me sleep with a blow to the head... 

Melatonin time

[sarah1972]

Ha! I know.

Since I am now on a diet, I should go for a new number:

919

Thaz a lot of beans!

[TonyaW]

Google says there are about 250 beans in a bag and looks like about 9 bags worth to me so my guess is 2250

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[Cassi]

Google says there are about 250 beans in a bag and looks like about 9 bags worth to me so my guess is 2250

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LOL, that's not exactly how googled explained it but the answer is still the same,lol.

[Devlyn]

... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

Edit:

...Wonders how Devlyn figured out the exact number of beans in the jar

Calibrated military grade counting scale. 

[Cassi]

In other words:

"The Fix Is In!"

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[Devlyn]

Still plenty of time to get in on the action! 

[Megan.]

Are they safe from squirrels?

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[Devlyn]

Hardy-har-har. 

If not the contest is switching to "How much does the fat squirrel in the jar weigh?" 

Hugs, Devlyn

[Megan.]

'Squirrel in Jar' sounds like a modern art installation [emoji16]

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[Cassi]

Squirrel - Leave Rocky out of this!!!!!  And don't even think of putting him in a jar or I'll tell Bullwinkle!!!!!

[Devlyn]

'Squirrel in Jar' sounds like a modern art installation [emoji16]

LMAO! 

[Dena]

As I am a little afraid of getting stuck with a bunch of Jelly Beans that I don't really care for, I am going to give everybody a little help coming closer to the correct number.

I counted 12 to 13 beans across the face of the jar. If you cube 12, you get 1728. If you look at the corners you will see they are rounded so instead of using 12.5 or 13, I used 12 and rounded down giving my 1700 number.                                       

... He can't sleep anyways, so he decides to count the visible beans by color:

- 26 green ones
- 32 yellow ones
- 50 orange ones
- 24 purple ones
- 25 red ones

= 157 visible jelly beans
Considerably less green, purple and yellow ones (what's with that?)

...Makes an estimation of times that said amount of beans can fit in a jar. Pretty sure it's greater than x10 times... x20 times...

...Gives up and picks one... offers 3,297 number of beans

...Wonders why he talks about himself in the third person

...Returns back to sleep, realizing that counting beans is more satisfying than counting sheep

Edit:

...Wonders how Devlyn figured out the exact number of beans in the jar

November Fox had a good start and then made a mistake. With 157 across the face, the square root of 157 is is about 12.53, cubing that gives 1967.

Google says there are about 250 beans in a bag and looks like about 9 bags worth to me so my guess is 2250

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Now this is an approach I didn't think of however it's useful information. Look at the following.
7 bags = 1750
8 bags = 2000
9 bags = 2250
Given the above information, 1750 or 2000 are likely numbers but remember the contents of a bag is an approximation so a little higher or a little lower are equally likely possibilities.

Let the guessing resume.